Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...creative artist, but also the purposes and desired results of education in the fine arts. Certain traditional functions of the college art department have a degree of usefulness, to be sure, which is relatively independent of these world changes, because they have a value which remains relatively constant. I refer to the preparation of the scholar-specialist whose activity will add to the sum total of what is known about a man, a work of art, a period, a school. The future scholar learns the methodology of research; he acquires precision and a scrupulous honesty in using his materials...
...With Hitler Over Germany, Youth About Hitler, Hitler in His Mountains, etc. In 1934 Hitler made him party photographer; in 1937, a Professor, a title which in Germany no more denotes pedagogy than it does on the U. S. vaudeville stage. For five years he has been a constant companion and sometime adviser of the ReichsFührer, helping to fill the place once occupied by "Putzy" Hanfstaengl, whose piano was not so successful an instrument of flattery as Heinrich Hoffmann's Leica...
...Manhattan, Frieda Mierse Wynn, 27, filed suit for separation from Funnyman Ed ("The Perfect Fool") Wynn, 52, charged him with being a "constant nag." Extracts from his 140-page answer: "First I bought her a dictionary. ... I trained her along the lines of the social graces.. . . The bliss I hoped for lasted only five days...
...means of lantern signals between mountain tops. Naturally he failed. Light travels about 186,270 miles (more than seven times the circumference of Earth) in one second. In modern physics, light is regarded as the fastest thing in the universe, and its velocity in empty space as a fundamental constant of nature...
...completed by his successors after Michelson's death yielded an average figure of 186,270.75 miles per second. But in individual runs there were unexplained, periodic variations up to twelve miles a second. At first this caused excitement over possibility that the speed of light might not be constant (TIME, Dec. 25, 1933). The clamor was quieted by attributing the variations to "experimental error." So the velocity of light was re-established as a constant in good standing...